Gas saving and anti-pollution device

ABSTRACT

A hot air passageway from the exhaust manifold, an adjustable cold air passageway from the vehicle interior, a T connection for mixing the cold and hot air of both passageways, and a passageway connected to the air cleaner of a carburetor bringing the air mixture thereinto.

llnited States Patent ailey [15] 3,656,462 [451 Apr. 18, 1972 [54] GASSAVING AND ANTI-POLLUTION DEVICE [72] Inventor: Ferrall W. Bailey, Route2, Kirklin, Ind.

[22] Filed: Oct. 7, 1970 [21] Appl. No.: 78,852

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l 56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,581,365 4/1926 Thavenet..98/2.11X

1,115,745 11/1914 Sibley ..123/122 D 1,280,463 10/1918 Henes ..123/122 D1,622,498 3/1927 Dunn 123/122 D 1,780,092 10/1930 Metz ..123/122 D2,398,094 4/1946 Heymann ..123/122 D 2,429,208 10/1947 Matthews atal.... .....123/122 D 3,024,778 3/1962 Townsend ..123/122 D 3,473,52210/1969 Bailey ..123/122 D FOREIGN PATENTS OR APPLICATIONS 928,7756/1947 France ..123/122 D Primary Examiner-A1 Lawrence SmithAttorney-Victor J. Evans & Co.

[57] ABSTRACT A hot air passageway from the exhaust manifold, anadjustable cold air passageway from the vehicle interior, a T connectionfor mixing the cold and hot air of both passageways, and a passagewayconnected to the air cleaner of a carburetor bringing the air mixturethereinto.

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GAS SAVING AND ANTI-POLLUTION DEVICE This invention relates to a gasmileage booster and pollution control device for internal combustionengines. This device increases the horsepower of the engine, saves onthe wear of the spark plugs, cools the oil in the motor, cuts the amountof carbon in the carburetor, involves no working parts to worry aboutwith respect to wear or break, is not adversely affected by the aircondition unit in the vehicle or aircraft, involves the fusing of airwithin the carburetor which will in turn minimize pollution due to thevaporization within the carburetor system, minimizes the wear andcarboning of the breather air filer, involves no countersunk parts toallow carbon to collect within the carburetor system, and slows down thebuild up of corrosion in the exhaust system due to the minimization ofpollution.

Accordingly, a primary object of this invention is increased gasmileage.

Another primary object of this invention is the reduction of pollutionwithout increased consumption of fuel and increased wear and tear withinthe engine.

Another object of this invention is its simplicity and adaptability inthat it can be easily and quickly installed and transferred from one carto another.

A further object of this invention is the movement and mixing in adesired proportion of hot and cold air streams without the use of avacuum pull.

The above and other objects of this invention will become apparent tothose skilled in the art after a consideration of the following detaileddescription of the preferred embodiments of this invention takentogether with the accompanying drawing wherein:

FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of the apparatus;

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken on line 2-2 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a cross sectional elevational view of the air breatherconnector of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a plan view ofthe breather of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken on line 5-5 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a variation of the apparatus for use in aircraft;

FIG. 7 is a sectional view taken on line 7-7 of FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken on line 88 of FIG. 6; and

FIG. 9 is a sectional view taken on line 99 of FIG. 6.

Referring in detail to the drawing, there is shown in FIG. 1 an internalcombustion engine 20, an exhaust manifold outlet 22, a carburetor 24,and a breather 26 beneath the hood 28 of a vehicle 30.

As clearly shown in FIG. 2, there is a series of apertures 40 within thetire wall 42 through which cool air flowing in the direction of thearrows passes after coming in from the air vent below the frontwindshield 46. The cool air flows into a connector 48 mounted at one endthereof against the surface of fire wall 42 enclosing aperatures 40 onthe front surface of fire wall 42 and connected at the other end thereofto a hose 50. Hose 50 is connected to one end of a plastic T 52 throughwhich the cool air passes.

As clearly shown in FIG. 5, a connector 64 is mounted adjacent manifoldoutlet 22 by means of strap 60. Connector 64 has apertures 62 thereinfacing manifold outlet 22 and is connected to the vertical leg of T 52by means of a hose 66. AS cool air is forced past the horizontal leg ofT 52, a draft is created which brings heated air surrounding manifoldoutlet 22 into connector 64 and up hose 66. The cool air and the airwhich was heated due to radiated heat from the exhaust within manifold22 mix within T 52 prior to entering breather 26. An adjustable slidevalve 70 is slidably mounted over apertures 40 on the back surface offire wall 42 in order to regulate the amount of cool air allowed to flowthrough T 52 and the amount of heated air allowed to be drawn up formixing with the cooled air. By adjusting slide 70 so that a certainnumber of apertures 40 are uncovered, apertures 40 will be balanced withapertures 62 in order to mix both the cool air and warm air in the rightproportion prior to vaporization within breather 26.

Breather 26 has a series of apertures 80, as clearly shown in FIG. 3,along a side portion thereof and a series of apertures 82 along a radialpath in the bottom thereof, as clearly shown in FIG. 4. A hose 84 isconnected between T 52 and a connector 86 which is mounted against theside of breather 26 enclosing apertures 80. The mixed hot and cold airfuse into breather 26 through apertures after leaving T 52. Apertures 82are balanced and equally spaced in a geometric pattern in order to allowthe fused air to proportionally escape into the atmosphere when there isan excess amount of pressure so that the proper amount of fused airwhich is vaporized in the carburetor system is automatically controlled.It should be noted that apertures 80 are fixed to limit the passage of acertain amount of proportioned hot and cold air.

An aircraft air frame 90, an exhaust manifold 92, filter assembly 94 forcarburetor air, duct assembly 96 for air intake,

duct flexible hose valve assembly 98, carburetor air valve assembly 100,carburetor alternate air valve assembly 102, and carburetor 104 areshown in FIG. 6. In a similar manner with the operation described withrespect to the embodiment disclosed in FIG. 1, cold air flowing past airframe is forced past apertures within a connector 112 and the cold airflows into a hose 114 and into a leg of a T 116, the heated airsurrounding exhaust manifold 92 enters into an adjacent connector bymeans of an opening 122 in the housing 124 upon which connector 120 ismounted and by means of the apertures 126 and connector 120 facingopening 122 because of a draft created by the passage of cold airthrough T 116 causing the heated air to be drawn up from connector 120to another leg of T 116 by means of a hose 128, the cold air and heatedair proportionately mixing within T 116 prior to entry in duct assembly96. The mixed air enters connector 132 by means of hose 130 and fusesinto duct assembly 96 by means of apertures 134. In the carburetor airvalve assembly 100 there are a series of balanced apertures 40 belowcarburetor 12 for automatic control of air intake in a manner similar tothat of apertures 82 in the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 4 Insummation, the controlled supply of the amount of the appropriateproportioned cool and hot air to the carburetor system results in a moreefficient combustion increasing gas mileage and reducing pollutants.While the preferred vehicle and aircraft embodiments have beenillustrated and described, it will be understood by those skilled in theart that many modifications and changes may be resorted to withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of the invention.

I claim:

1. A gas saving and anti-pollution apparatus for use with a motorvehicle of the type having a passenger compartment including a fire walland an internal combustion engine having an exhaust manifold and acarburetor equipped with an air cleaner comprising a connector mountedon said fire wall and communicating through a plurality of apertureswith the interior of the passenger compartment, a slide valve on saidfire wall for adjustably closing said apertures, a conduit T, a flexibleconduit connecting one leg of said conduit T and said connector, an airinlet connector secured to the exhaust manifold of the engine, a secondflexible conduit connecting said air inlet connector with another leg ofsaid conduit T, a third connector secured to said air cleaner andcommunicating with the interior thereof, and a third flexible conduitconnecting said third connector to the third leg of said conduit Twhereby cool air from said passenger compartment flows through saidconduit T to said air cleaner and heated air is drawn thereby from saidair inlet connector through said conduit T mixing therein with the coolair prior to reaching said air cleaner.

2. A device as claimed in claim I wherein said air inlet connector has aplurality of apertures arranged to draw heated air from around saidexhaust manifold.

3. A device as claimed in claim 1 wherein said third connector has aplurality of apertures formed therein communicating with said aircleaner.

1. A gas saving and anti-pollution apparatus for use with a motorvehicle of the type having a passenger compartment including a fire walland an internal combustion engine having an exhaust manifold and acarburetor equipped with an air cleaner comprising a connector mountedon said fire wall and communicating through a plurality of apertureswith the interior of the passenger compartment, a slide valve on saidfire wall for adjustably closing said apertures, a conduit T, a flexibleconduit connecting one leg of said conduit T and said connector, an airinlet connector secured to the exhaust manifold of the engine, a secondflexible conduit connecting said air inlet connector with another leg ofsaid conduit T, a third connector secured to said air cleaner andcommunicating with the interior thereof, and a third flexible conduitconnecting said third connector to the third leg of said conduit Twhereby cool air from said passenger compartment flows through saidconduit T to said air cleaner and heated air is drawn thereby from saidair inlet connector through said conduit T mixing therein with the coolair prior to reaching said air cleaner.
 2. A device as claimed in claim1 wherein said air inlet connector has a plurality of apertures arrangedto draw heated air from around said exhaust manifold.
 3. A device asclaimed in claim 1 wherein said third connector has a plurality ofapertures formed therein communicating with said air cleaner.